MacBook and MacBook Pro take a standard 2.5" SATA hard drive. Better to go for 5400RPM over 4200RPM though otherwise you're placing a bottleneck on your very fast laptop. 7200RPM would be the best option but the price is a premium.

From what I can tell, 7200RPM drives only go up to 200GB at the moment, but I didn't do a big search. I like Samsung Spinpoint drives because of the noise reduction they use. Ascent has some good deals on them at the moment.

MacBook and MacBook Pro take a standard 2.5" SATA hard drive. Better to go for 5400RPM over 4200RPM though otherwise you're placing a bottleneck on your very fast laptop. 7200RPM would be the best option but the price is a premium.

From what I can tell, 7200RPM drives only go up to 200GB at the moment, but I didn't do a big search. I like Samsung Spinpoint drives because of the noise reduction they use. Ascent has some good deals on them at the moment.

cool, checked out Ascent, found this Samsung

http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=364544Samsung Spinpoint M5 HM320JI Hard Disk Drive, 320GB, 5400rpm, 8192KB Cache, SATA-1 - $231 incl GSTbut it says; Max. 160GB formatted capacity per disk can anyone clarify this for me? on face value it seems to me that you have to partition into 2 seperate of 160 GB each, but surely that cant be right?

Just some things to be aware of if you decide to upgrade your Macbook.

1) It doesn;t look fun getting at the hard disk, so be careful :-)

2) Get a 7200rpm disk if you can .. heat increases a little bit and battery life probably goes down, but you get significant performance increases .. my Mac Mini got a big boost when I replaced the 5400rpm drive,

You asked a Q about the statement of 160GB per disk ? ... they probably mean the drive has two disk platters inside it each of 160gb giving 320gb in total .. don;t worry you;d just see 320gb when it's plugged into a computer.

Just some things to be aware of if you decide to upgrade your Macbook.

1) It doesn;t look fun getting at the hard disk, so be careful :-)

2) Get a 7200rpm disk if you can .. heat increases a little bit and battery life probably goes down, but you get significant performance increases .. my Mac Mini got a big boost when I replaced the 5400rpm drive,

You asked a Q about the statement of 160GB per disk ? ... they probably mean the drive has two disk platters inside it each of 160gb giving 320gb in total .. don;t worry you;d just see 320gb when it's plugged into a computer.

Regards

Mark

thanks for the info.

1) my brother upgraded my HDD in my last MBP, but he's still over in the UK so going to have to tackle it entirely myself, not looking forward to it.

2) yeah 7200 would be nice, will see if i can track one down at a resonable price otherwise will go for one of the suggestions here.

cheers

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